Joint event detection and description in continuous video streams

Huijuan Xu, Boyang Li, Vasili Ramanishka, Leonid Sigal, Kate Saenko

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Abstract

Dense video captioning is a fine-grained video understanding task that involves two sub-problems: localizing distinct events in a long video stream, and generating captions for the localized events. We propose the Joint Event Detection and Description Network (JEDDi-Net), which solves the dense video captioning task in an end-to-end fashion. Our model continuously encodes the input video stream with three-dimensional convolutional layers, proposes variable-length temporal events based on pooled features, and generates their captions. Proposal features are extracted within each proposal segment through 3D Segment-of-Interest pooling from shared video feature encoding. In order to explicitly model temporal relationships between visual events and their captions in a single video, we also propose a two-level hierarchical captioning module that keeps track of context. On the large-scale ActivityNet Captions dataset, JEDDi-Net demonstrates improved results as measured by standard metrics. We also present the first dense captioning results on the TACoS-MultiLevel dataset.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages396-405
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728119755
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 4 2019
Event19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019 - Waikoloa Village, United States
Duration: Jan 7 2019Jan 11 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019

Conference

Conference19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa Village
Period1/7/191/11/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Science Applications

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